Category: June 2011
From little things big things grow
TeachMeets have been taking place in the UK for five years now and they are well established as a fabulous way to increase teachers’ professional development and to build personal networks with other teachers. In fact so successful are they, that most of them end with a TeachMeet Eat dinner! Here in Australia we are […]
Homework Hassles- take two
Do you suffer from homework hassles? Do you struggle to find just the right amount of interesting and challenging tasks to suit all the learners, all the parents and the homework policy at your school? I do. It was almost exactly a year ago that I wrote my first post about homework hassles. So it […]
Why I love Edmodo
I have been trying to write this post for weeks now. I love edmodo. In fact I would have to say using edmodo is becoming an absolutely essential tool in our year 5 classrooms. I want to try and explain some of the ways we are using edmodo in year 5 and to try and […]
Learning Spaces
I have blogged before about learning spaces. Inspired by my day with Steve Collis last term. I rearranged my classroom so as to provide my students with a space which was homely. Which offered them a choice in where to sit and which attempted to create different types of learning spaces. I must admit that […]